Kurdish Wheatear
Oenanthe xanthoprymna(Hemprich, WF; Ehrenberg, CG, 1833)
English (US) Kurdish Wheatear
The Kurdish Wheatear (Oenanthe xanthoprymna) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Muscicapidae (Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: breeds in southeastern Türkiye, far northeastern Iraq, and western Iran; winters in eastern Egypt (in the Nile Valley and near the Red Sea), northeastern Sudan, and on the western Arabian Peninsula, locally also in southern IsraelRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Oenanthe xanthoprymna
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Kurdish Wheatear
- Described by
- (Hemprich, WF; Ehrenberg, CG, 1833)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Saxicola xanthoprymna
- Described by
- (Hemprich, WF; Ehrenberg, CG, 1833)
- Type locality
- Nubia.
- Original description
- Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones corporum naturalium novorum aut minus cognitorum quae ex itineribus per Libyam Aegyptum Nubiam Dongolam Syrian Arabiam et Habessianiam publico institutis (etc.) sig.dd p.58
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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